Dress-skirt gage.



No. 873,882. PAITENIIED DEC. 11, 1901 J. LA MORE.

DRESS SKIRT GAGE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21. 1905.

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JAMES LA MORE, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

DRESS-SKIRT GAG-E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1907.

Application filed August 21, 1905- Serial No. 275,152.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES LAMORE, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Skirt Gages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in appliances for gaging a dress skirt to the desired, and a uniform length, and its object is to provide a convenient gage that may be readily adjusted to any desired height and will insure a uniform length, or maybe varied so as to give a uniform divergence of length from front to back. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the simpler form of gage; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig.3 shows the same as applied to the bottom of a dress skirt.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the simpler form I make use of a base A having a vertical standard B, through which a series of holes I) are made for the reception and support of the arm 0, which arm is designed to be placed at the proper distance from the floor tomake the skirt the desired length the height of the arm being varied,

by passing it through the hole I) at the height desired. To avert the danger of the rod C drawing out of the standard when in use up on a skirt I form a small head 0 at the back end of the rod so that it will engage the standard when in position and render it impossible to draw the rod through from this way.

In use, the gage is placed in the desired position with the arm 0 in position to engage the bottom of the skirt, somewhat as indicated in Fig. 3, when the portion of the skirt adjacent to the arm may be folded around the arm and basted or pinned to place, as indicated at (Z c, 0, when the arm may be removed and the neXt adjacent portion of the skirt arranged, and so on until the entire circumference of the skirt has been arranged.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In a dress skirt gage, a base, a standard secured to said base at right angles thereto, and having a series of holes at right angles through the standard, at intervals, and a rod adapted to be supported at right angles to said standard by being placed into any of said holes, said rod being enlarged at one end whereby the rod is prevented from being accidentally separated from said standard when said enlarged part is drawn against the standard.

Signed at Grand Rapids Michigan August 16, 1905.

JAMES LA MORE.

In presence of I. J. OILLEY, BURT G. DECKER. 

